Want to play nearly ANY video file on your TiVo? (Main TiVo.Net Thread)

I don't want to break any advertising rules, but I'm posting this in the hopes that someone finds it useful. I wrote some software that does auto-transcoding (on the fly) and transfer to the tivo. It's windows only (cause it's a windows service), but it's open source. If anyone wants to take a look, here's the links (er...or not...I can't post urls until I make 5 posts....so I guess you'll have to wait )

So anyways, eventually I'll get around to making 5 posts and I'll put the links here.

Dan203: I'm unsticking this thread as the software is pretty stale and is no longer the best choice for this functionality

Well until you can post the url, you could expand on what your software does and how it works.

I'll do both.

The app is a windows service that runs on any PC on the same network as the TiVo. It sends out a tivo beacon just like the TiVo desktop software and provides video content to the TiVo. You just point it at a directory with videos in it, and go to your TiVo and watch!

Admittedly, on my noisy WiFi network at home I have to watch at lowest quality, but I can't see worth crap anyways.

Also, keep in mind I wrote this less than a week ago, and haven't gotten any significant bug reports yet...so if it blows up, you've gotta let me know

For now, anything that ffmpeg supports (see http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC21). I haven't found any of my movies that failed yet, but I'm sure there are some. I'm working on a plugin structure so new transcoders can be put in there to fill in any gaps.

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I keep on getting this error System The system cannot find the path specified Minor Error in the Error Log and when I put a video in the C:\Program Files\PipKin Technologies\TiVo.Net\Videos\ or any other folder tivo can't see it.

I keep on getting this error System The system cannot find the path specified Minor Error in the Error Log and when I put a video in the C:\Program Files\PipKin Technologies\TiVo.Net\Videos\ or any other folder tivo can't see it.

bah!

I'll look into it. I've probably got the path setup wrong in the installer...give me just a moment. As I said, crazy work day, so I'm a little busy at the moment.

Ok, so it's showing a list of all my AVIs now. But when I click 'Watch on This TV' it gives the error that the file wasn't found.
And damn, I've been waiting for something like this for a long while now...

Ok, so it's showing a list of all my AVIs now. But when I click 'Watch on This TV' it gives the error that the file wasn't found.
And damn, I've been waiting for something like this for a long while now...

Any errors in your error log? I'm imagining there's some characters in your filename that the TiVo doesn't like.

Just this, but this is from the previous install earlier, not the latest fix.

System The system cannot find the path specified Minor Error
mscorlib Could not find a part of the path 'D:\Output'. Minor Error
mscorlib Could not find a part of the path 'D:\Output'. Minor Error
System The system cannot find the path specified Minor Error
System The system cannot find the path specified Minor Error
System The system cannot find the path specified Minor Error
System The system cannot find the path specified Minor Error
System The system cannot find the path specified Minor Error
System The system cannot find the path specified Minor Error
System The system cannot find the path specified Minor Error
System The system cannot find the path specified Minor Error

Hrm, well I'm headed home, I'll run some tests on my box there. I'm thinking there's possibly still one hardcoded path in there somewhere. I'll try and post a fix once I find it. I'll post here when I do.

I installed TiVoDotNetSetup-0.2.0a-fix2.msi . I opened the admin page and pointed to a video directory. I ran down to the tivo and it showed up fine.

A couple of suggestions.
1. a setting for video file extensions to allow.
-- Because Thumbs.db etc. are showing up on the Tivo; have not tested other files
-- And by the way, I accidently clicked on thumbs and its pretty much locking up the tivo. lol waiting to see what happens before I reboot it.

2. option to scan sub-folder of video folder
-- would be very nice, as all of my vids are in there own folders.

pipakin, First off thanks for working on this... I have many .avi files on my computer that I would like to watch on my Tivo. I am having a bit of trouble, I have the latest download, I used the C:\DotNotTivo\Videos . My Tivo sees the directoryand the files I dropped there. Problem is when I go to transfer I get a message to look at my "To do list " history and it told me that the file was not found on Tivo.net server.....any advice?